Staff Andy Somerfield Posted August 5, 2019 Staff Share Posted August 5, 2019 Status: Release candidate Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo Mac App Store: Not Submitted Download ZIP: Download Auto-update: Available Hello, We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the second release candidate build of Affinity Photo 1.7.2 for macOS. If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry. This beta is an incremental update to the 1.7.1 version recently released to all customers. We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. Affinity Photo Team Changes This Build - Numerous fixes for live filter rendering - especially when grouped. - Fixed S&H filter background colour on old macOS (probably). - Fixed crashes when saving batch jobs as .afphoto. - Japanese IME input fixes. - Renamed “Absolute size” to “Resample” in the crop tool. - Fixed some DNGs importing incorrectly. - Fixed develop crop not rounding to whole pixels. - Fixed PSD import when file has a solid white background layer. - Lens correction database improvements. - Metadata mining improvements. - Assorted small fixes. - Help updates. - Localisation tweaks. Changes Since 1.7.1 - Resize document fixes. - Notarised for Catalina. - Improved SVG loading. - “D” key resets fills to black & white. - Brush barrel rotation is no longer inverted when using Wacom stylus. - Make Apple Sidecar work properly. - Develop performance tweaks. - Numerous small bug fixes. - Added TGA export. - Added “Remove Black Matte” and “Remove White Matte” filters. - Shadows and highlights filter can now use either the 1.6 or 1.7 method. - Flood fill too can now sample from layers beneath etc. Also supports blend modes. - Flood select tool can now sample from all layers. - Added keyboard nudge support to the crop tool. - Added align and distribute toolbar button groups to Photo. - Different icon for beta builds. - Cancelling a crop will now preserve the “drag to set crop” state properly. - Added a warning when deleting a global colour. - Improvements to compositing performance with Metal compute enabled. - General improvement to filter responsiveness. - Improved clone brush responsiveness and fixed a couple of crashes. - Assorted metadata improvements. - Saving a JPEG will now replace the EXIF::Subject field with the document title. - Restore support for .fff files. - Prevent access to tone mapping / develop when recording a macro (the result would never be recorded). - Improved the performance of median, blur brush with Metal compute. - Fixed broken Japanese keyboard input (sorry!). - Fixed printing CMYK documents on older versions of macOS. - Fixed sporadic tile issues when painting with Metal compute enabled. - Fixed crash when reentering export dialog under certain conditions. - Fixed crashes when pasting screenshots into the app. - Fixed some crashes on GPUs with 32GB of VRAM (!). - Fixed vibrance slider in tone mapping. - Fixed Lightroom data being stripped from Capture One XMP output. - Fixed loss of legacy HSL adjustment HSV state after a save. - Fixed batch job crashes when saving to .afphoto. - Assorted small fixes and improvements. - Help improvements. - Selection refinement - performance and stability improvements. - Fixed clone brush issues when sampling from current layer & below. - Inpainting performance improvements. - Import 16bit half float JPEG-XR files properly. - Allow .jxr files to be dragged in. - Text performance improvements. - Improved LAB colour conversions. - Fixed healing brush bugs. - Fixed badly placed stepper buttons in tone mapping UI. - Pantone palettes are now sorted alphabetically. - Fixed crash when starting app in a folder containing weird characters. - Fixed yellow colour cast on certain DNG files. - Fixed 360 degree images losing metadata on export. - Localisation improvements. To be notified about all future macOS beta updates, please follow this notification thread To be notified when this Photo update comes out of beta and is fully released to all Affinity Photo on macOS customers, please follow this thread IPv6 and MEB 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IPv6 Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 Hooray! MedianBlur filter works great again thanks a lot for your efforts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyL Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 Incremental update not working, Auto update downloads full 442 mb version, should it be so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted August 5, 2019 Author Staff Share Posted August 5, 2019 TommyL, Yes I am afraid so - just for this build though - normal update service will be restored for 151 onwards. Andy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seneca Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 Thank you Andy, Still not digitally signed? 2017 27” iMac 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 • Radeon Pr 580 8GB • 64GB • Ventura 13.6.4. iPad Pro (10.5-inch) • 256GB • Version 16.4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joel_ec Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 So better downloading the full archive.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyL Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 Thanks Andy, and the S&H filter is indeed working on OSX 10.11.6! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ader Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 I wrote a few days ago about the problem of healing brush and pen tool. I just downloaded 1.7.2.150 - RC2 and tested it. Short test contents can be confirmed by video. Unfortunately, these problems do not seem to be fixed. As a loved one for affinity photo, I look forward to seeing a full version of the problem. ---------- I am using affinity photo on the following device. 1. MacBook Pro (retina, 15inch, early 2013) i7 / 16GB / Mojave 2.iMac (retina 5K, 27inch, 2019) i9 / 64GB / Mojave test2.mov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denjes2 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 I separated the windows but now I can't merge them back. Version 1.7.2.150. MacOS 10.14.6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RNKLN Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 On 8/5/2019 at 11:05 AM, Andy Somerfield said: Shadows and highlights filter can now use either the 1.6 or 1.7 method Hi, does this also address the inconsistency between the Shadows/Highlights dialog when accessed via the menu bar and the one accessed via the 'Adjustments' icon in the Layers studio? (couldn't find any entry on the forae about this). Affinity Photo - Affinity Designer - Affinity Publisher | macOS Sonoma (14.2) on 16GB MBP14 2021 with 2.4 versions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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